ABSTRACT This Special Issue asks: what is the current place of militarism in relation to security where Africa is concerned? It aims to contribute to emerging debates interested in critical inquiry of the relation between militarism and security, and to explore its diverse articulations in African settings. We advance an international political sociological (IPS) approach to militarism in order to explore militarised security politics as a field of contested practices and logics. We discuss why this approach enables us to uncover the interconnected historical patterns and power relations in which practices and logics of security and militarism become linked and grounded in simultaneously local and transnational African settings.

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非洲安全与全球军国主义

摘要本期专刊问：就非洲而言，与安全有关的军国主义当前位置是什么？它旨在促进对军国主义与安全之间的关系进行批判性探究的新兴辩论，并探索其在非洲环境中的多种表述。我们将国际政治社会学（IPS）方法用于军国主义，以便将军国化安全政治作为有争议的实践和逻辑领域进行探索。我们讨论了为什么这种方法使我们能够发现相互联系的历史模式和权力关系，在这种历史模式和权力关系中，安全和军国主义的实践和逻辑在当地和跨国的非洲环境中相互关联并立足。